Previous Workshops
Previous Workshops
Cowabunga Chemistry! Shows the students how chemistry is involved in rockets and space as well as how chemistry is involved in our everyday lives. Students study rocket propellants, solid and liquid, cryogenics that will amaze you. Freeze a banana or a hot dog in seconds; make "slime" and a mini-rocket. Paul Jones, Chemical Engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards AFB
NASA
F-16XL Flight Simulator Students
see the
capabilities and a review of the different skills required to
develop and maintain the flight systems.
Students get to sit inside the simulator and pilot an aircraft.
MaryAnn Grossman, Simulator Technician,
NASA
Dryden Flight Research Center
NASA Mission Control Take part in a NASA research flight. View and operate NASA Mission Control room displays. Students observe data generated by a research aircraft while flown by a NASA pilot. Students communicate with the pilot, and ask questions during the flight.
Michael
Yettaw &
NASA
Dryden Flight Research Center
Staying
Alive at the Edge of Space
A
NASA full pressure suit is on display and the talk/discussion is about
why pilots have to wear something that resembles a space suit to fly
high altitude aircraft. The talk touches on mathematics, science, and
how pressure affects the human body at different altitudes, feet. The
special “tube food” that these pilots have to eat is available to be
sampled.
Jim Sokolik, Life Support Technician, NASA Dryden Flight Research
From
Fun Hobbies to a Test Pilot Career
Learn
about several fun hobbies...stunt kites, radio controlled airplanes,
flying real airplanes, astronomy…and how they helped me become an Air
Force Test Pilot.
Capt
Bryan Duke, Test Pilot, 416th Flight Test Squadron, Edwards AFB
Before
the Wright Brothers / Lighter-than-Air Flight
Hot-Air
balloon pilot Stephen Langjahr speaks of the colorful history of
lighter-than-air flight and involves students in an actual inflation of
a modern hot air balloon outside the classroom.
Professor Stephen Langjahr, Antelope
Valley College
Teacher
Workshop
Inquiry Based Activities for Demonstrating Forces and Motion Cool Hands-On Activities are set up in this Workshop for Teachers to experiment with. Forces and Motion labs and demonstrations requiring little set-up time that utilize everyday materials will be modeled. These activities follow the 8th Grade California Science Standards Requirements. Teachers receive resource materials/web links.
Mr.
Mick Bowen, Education Consultant